When I was a senior in high school, all my teachers and advisers said, “Don’t major in music because it’s too difficult to make a living. You need a ‘real’ profession to fall back on when the dream dies.” Because I was a pretty good student, one teacher even said, “Why would you waste your brain on music?” My mother told me, “Child, if you go into music you’re gonna end up struggling and suffering just like your daddy.” When I talked to my father, a great musician who I had seen killing himself to make barely enough to take care of his family, he said, “Make sure you don’t have anything to fall back on…because you will. This is not for the faint of heart.” ~ Wynton Marsalis Wynton Marsalis: composer, teacher, music educator, Artistic Director of Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York City. 9 Grammys. 1 Pulitzer Prize for Music. Commit your whole heart to walking in your calling. God didn’t intend for everyone to believe in your dreams, but He intends for YOU to believe in HIM and to believe in YOURSELF! QUITTING IS NEVER AN OPTION. “And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.” Galatians 6:9 KJV
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